Leveller bar for a coke oven block

In a leveller bar for leveling a coal heap formed during a charging process under charging holes of an oven compartment of a coke oven block, said leveller bar comprising two vertical plates connected with each other and spaced parallel from each other a distance (a) determined by a width of the oven compartment, said vertical plates forming an intervening space between the plates in which a plurality of coal deflecting and entraining devices are arranged one after the other along the vertical plates, the improvement further comprising a plurality of spacing rods (3) spacing and holding the plates (1) from each other, and wherein each of the coal deflecting and entraining devices (2) does not extend over the entire distance (a) between the plates (1) and each of the coal deflecting and entraining devices (2) extends from one of the plates (1) which is opposite to the plate (1) from which the adjacent ones of the deflecting and entraining devices (2) extend.